A phone with an arrow pointed straight at it, originally meant to show an incoming call. People use it more loosely now for anything moving through a phone — a call, a text, a file transfer — or just as a generic "phone" stand-in.
What 📲 means
The same phone described in 📱 Mobile Phone, but with the only addition of an inward-facing red arrow starting from the right side of the phone. The 📲 Mobile Phone With Arrow emoji indicates incoming calls, text messages, notifications, or even information or bank transfer.
How and when to use it
- If you're talking about the incoming call(s) you just purposely missed, use 📲. For example, "She just kept calling dude 📲. I just helplessly watched the phone until the call died out and then turned off my cell".
- Similarly, you may use 📲 even while informing someone that they will be expecting a call/message. For instance, "Um, about that. I gave them your number. So you might get a call in a day or two 📲".
- 📲 could also be used as a reference to mobile money transfers. Like, "Just sent you over my debt 📲 Now stop bugging me".
- If you're talking about the power of social media, the speedy transfer of information, or just about how connected the current world is, please do use 📲 - "It's a really really small world eh 📲📲📲📲".
Other Names
- 📲 Incoming Call(s)
- 📲 Incoming Message(s)
- 📲 Mobile Transfer
- 📲 Phone Call
- 📲 Pointing to Phone
- 📲 Mobile Phone with Rightwards Arrow to Left
- 📲 Phone With Arrow
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › phone
- Codepoints
U+1F4F2- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:calling:- Keywords
- arrow, build, call, cell, communication, mobile, phone, receive, telephone
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 📲 Mobile Phone with Arrow or 🛼 Roller Skate?